Which statement about infants' early word production is NOT true?
A) The proportion of nouns in very young children's vocabulary is related to the proportion of nouns in their mothers' speech to them.
B) The rate of vocabulary development is associated with the amount of speech infants hear.
C) One-word utterances typically have the same meaning as adults' single words.
D) Highly educated mothers have children with larger vocabularies than those of children with less-educated mothers.

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One-word utterances typically do not have the same meaning as adults' single words. Infants often use one word to represent a whole phrase or sentence, such as using "juice" to mean "I want some juice." This is known as holophrastic speech.

Which Statement About Infants' Early Word Production Is NOT True